I ve made a dangerous discovery this week. A discovery that involves heating up a can of coconut milk with a handful of really good chocolate and a little vanilla (and a few other ingredients) and creating the silkiest, dreamiest pudding you may have ever tasted. Although usually quite easy, puddings can sometimes be tricky. There s nothing… ☕ Read more

Our piece aboutJamie Oliver s chicken in milk got me thinking about other possibilities for cooking a whole chicken in milk — what could be easier than filling a pot with liquid and spices, turning on the heat, and walking away until what s left is the most succulent fall-off-the-bone bird? So I decided to try the sweet and pungent flavors… ☕ Read more

When it comes to cookies, deliciousness usually arrives in the form of ingredients like flour, butter, sugar, nuts, and chocolate. So what happens when you can t eat any of these foods? In my case, you start playing with coconut. Besides nut and chocolate allergies, I am currently on a restricted diet without gluten, soy, dairy, or refined… ☕ Read more

Chocolate Burfi is a very easy burfi that even beginners can try, it just melts in your mouth, so soft and textured that I loved it instantly. The fact that this burfi also requires very little ghee made me to try it instantly.I used my maida burfi as base recipe for this chocolate burfi and it came out soo good.I just tried with a very small… ☕ Read more

During one of our trips to Hawaii, I bought a fundraiser cookbook, 50th Anniversary Best of Our Favorite Recipes published by the Maui Association for Family and Community Education. I love cookbooks with recipes by everyone’s grandmother and auntie, showcasing traditional and everyday recipes such as malasadas, pork adobo, and laulau. I did… ☕ Read more

This vegan vegetable korma is made with fresh veggies and chickpeas, simmered in an Indian curry coconut sauce and topped with roasted cashews and fresh cilantro. Sometimes I don’t understand myself at all. This is one of those recipes which, once I made it, I was kicking myself because it was just too easy. Kicking myself (1) for not having… ☕ Read more

This recipe should come in handy this holiday season. Or, really anytime you want to make something totally decadent. Homemade sweetened condensed coconut milk! Traditional sweetened condensed milk is made by heating milk until most of the water is removed, then adding sugar, leaving you with a thick and sticky substance that tastes downright… ☕ Read more

I usually fall into one of two sweet potato camps, depending on the time of year. For Christmas and Thanksgiving, I want marshmallows. Lots and lots of marshmallows. As for the other 363 days, give them to me roasted with a pat of butter. But as much as I love the simplicity of an unadorned baked sweet potato, I forget that just a couple of… ☕ Read more

I’m typing as quietly as I can. I’m sitting in bed writing this and Elsa is sleeping right next to me. This post will therefore probably be pretty short. Don’t want to wake her up. Luise is out tonight so Elsa and I have played all evening. If you have been reading this blog for a while you probably know that we raise our daughter on a mainly… ☕ Read more

Learn how to make an easy Indian-style fish curry with coconut milk, one of my go-to fish recipes, especially when entertaining. As you guys know, I am from Kerala and not vegetarian so that would mean I love fish. The gorgeous river fish so easily available there lends itself well to a variety of fish dishes, mostly served with rice, but… ☕ Read more

This Coconut Curry Chicken recipe is beyond easy. You can literally start cooking before the prep work even starts. I don’t know why it took us this long to publish our coconut curry chicken recipe. It’s one of my absolute favorite meals. Curried chicken is a quick, crowd-pleasing one-pot dinner that’s great for a weeknight. Not only is it… ☕ Read more

I’ve been thinking about the concept of time lately. I suspect that it falls outside of my comprehension, like the infinite nature of the universe, and how the dishes manage to pile up in my sink when I’m not looking. Time comes and it goes, sure, but it never seems to run at a constant rate. I seem to live in denial that everything takes… ☕ Read more

Chicken Curry with Coconut Milk A fantastic and flavorful chicken curry that is a regular at our home. This favorite chicken curry recipe is usually prepared as a side with flavored rice like Tomato Pulao. Coconut milk and poppy seeds are essential in the preparation of the curry. The chicken simmers in a concoction of yogurt, coconut milk… ☕ Read more

A well-loved dessert all around the world, tapioca pudding is one “treat” that’s easily made Paleo, because when you take out the sugar and milk, it’s actually not unhealthy! Tapioca is a safe starch, and actually quite a good choice of carbohydrate: it’s mostly glucose (starch), without a lot of fructose (sugar). Nutritionally, it’s not much… ☕ Read more

This Indian specialty is so good, I can’t even begin to tell you how. It’s almost criminal . Also known as Murg Makhani , its name comes from the heavy use of savory butter of Ghee (clarified butter). The original recipe calls for yogurt, but we’ll substitute the yogurt with coconut milk, which will be just as good. This recipe is very easy… ☕ Read more